“The greatness of a writer consists in articulating the eternal problems and dilemmas of humanity”: An Interview with Professor Hubert Orłowski, Conducted by Karolina Król

Karolina Król; Hubert Orłowski

doi:10.18778/2299-7458.09.20

Autor

Karolina Król
Hubert Orłowski

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/2299-7458.09.20

Słowa kluczowe:

Thomas Mann, Stanisław Barańczak, The Magic Mountain

Abstrakt

The interview focuses on Thomas Mann, his oeuvre and the reception of his works. The dispute around Mann’s The Magic Mountain, started by Stanisław Barańczak, is an important context of the text. In the interview an essay Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man (yet untranslated into Polish as a whole) is mentioned.

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Biogramy autorów

Karolina Król

Karolina Król – a student of Polish philology at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. In 2019, she became a laureate of the ‘Best Student Grant’ programme and she carried out the project titled “Czesław Miłosz and Stanisław Barańczak: Parallels and Splits as Exemplified by the Reception of The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann in the Works of the Two Poets.” She is interested in the 20th- and 21st-century poetry as well as works centred around the issue of the Holocaust.

Hubert Orłowski

Hubert Orłowski – Professor Emeritus of Adam Mickiewicz University, a full member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, a Germanist (specialisation: the history of German literature and culture), a literary scholar. His most important publications include: Literatura w III Rzeszy, Poznań 1975, second extended edition 1979; “Polnische Wirtschaft.“ Zum deutschen Polendiskurs der Neuzeit, Wiesbaden 1996; Wobec zniewoleń “ krótkiego stulecia.” Szkice o literaturze austriackiej i niemieckiej, Wrocław 1997; Polnische Wirthschaft. Nowoczesny niemiecki dyskurs o Polsce, Olsztyn 1998; Literatur und Herrschaft – Herrschaft und Literatur. Zur deutschen und österreichischen Literatur im 20. Jahrhundert, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin 2000; Z modernizacją w tle. Wokół rodowodu nowoczesnych niemieckich wyobrażeń o Polsce i Polakach, Poznań 2002; Zrozumieć świat. Szkice o literaturze i kulturze niemieckiej XX wieku, Wrocław 2003; Die Lesbarkeit von Stereotypen. Der deutsche Polendiskurs im Blick historischer Stereotypenforschung und historischer Semantik, Wrocław 2004; Deutsche und Polen: Geschichte, Kultur und Politik (co-editor), München 2006; Dzieje kultury niemieckiej (in cooperation with Czesław Karolak and Wojciech Kunicki), Warsaw 2006, second extended edition 2015. The editor of 50 volumes in the series Poznańska Biblioteka Niemiecka; in co-operation with Christoph Kleßmann from volume no. 1 to 35. He edited twenty two collective volumes and sixteen anthologies; the author of over four hundred and forty articles.